Seattle Arts & Lectures will be streaming the reading of Rick Barot, award-winning Tacoma poet. His latest book of poems, The Galleons (2020), is in part about the centuries-long colonial structure that sustained Spanish control over Latin and South America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines.
Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising, Dispatches from the New American Shore, will visit Lake Oswego to talk about her book.
Join Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies for a presentation by author and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Rush, who will discuss her new book Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.
The University of Oregon is pleased to host Elizabeth Rush (Rising) for an evening to give voice to those who have been traditionally left out of environmental discourse and how we might make the conversation more whole moving forward.
Visiting Hurst Professor Rick Barot reads from The Galleons.
Happy new year to you and happy fortieth anniversary year to all of us here at Milkweed! This year of blog content will seek to highlight what glows about the past, present, and future here at Milkweed, and there’s no more fitting space for us to begin than with a celebration of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants!
Since its release in 2014, Braiding Sweetgrass has epitomized our mission of publishing and supporting superb work that is deeply in conversation with our natural world. With over 300,000 copies sold, Braiding Sweetgrass was…
The Loft Literary Center Presents a 2019-2020 Loft Mentor Series Reading with mentors Ross Gay and Douglas Kearney and fellows Chee Vang, Halee Kirkwood, Heather Quinn, and Misty Schwab. Book sales provided by Milkweed Books.
Join Brooke Matson, innovative cellist Third Seven, and Lindsay Hill at the Spokane Civic Theatre (Main Stage) for a special performance celebrating the release of In Accelerated Silence by Brooke Matson.
Join Milkweed Books in celebrating the release of Marlin M. Jenkins’s debut chapbook, Capable Monsters.
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